US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Feb. 25 for "Laundry treating apparatus and method for controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,589, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Laundry treating apparatus and method for controlling the same" was invented by Sunho Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Youngjong Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Dongcheol Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treating apparatus includes a drum and a rotator. The rotator includes a bottom portion positioned on a bottom surface of the drum, and a pillar protruding upward from the bottom portion and having a blade disposed on an outer circumferential surface thereof. A controller controls a driver such that the rotator performs an ascendi...